RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 09.12.2023
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 09.12.2023
Including geopolitical issues affecting the balance of power in the ongoing end game war to establish our common future, a closely monitored prison planet or tolerance for diverse modes of governance.
THE ROAD TO THE ULTIMATE CONCLUSION OF WORLD WAR III RUNS THROUGH HERE.
*** UKRAINE: WESTERN POWERS IN STATE OF TOTAL DESPERATION ***
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“Ukraine. What is the truth...?
Why won’t western media tell both sides…?”
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VIRTUALLY UNREPORTED ATROCITY IN LUGANSK, 2nd JUNE 2014
A lot has been said about atrocities in the western media claimed to have been perpetrated by the Russians, for example at Bucha and Mariupol among others. These assertions are conveyed on the say so of the Ukrainian authorities. How willing though are western news broadcasters to convey atrocities attributed to the Ukrainians? The following will I think provide the answer.
If anyone wonders if they are receiving accurate coverage of the conflict in Ukraine I would suggest watching the video below of an event which occurred on the 2nd of June 2014 and ask themselves if they recall hearing about it on any mainstream media news channel at the time.
The video is harrowing to watch. The bodies (five women and three men) are real. Yet across western media there was only one single news report that occurred a day later. This was from CNN and occurred only because a CNN team happened to be nearby at the time of the atrocity and so the network could hardly ignore it as all others so obviously did.
The video below shows the unvarnished truth that was not considered newsworthy in western mainstream news.
THE SINGLE WESTERN MSM REPORT ON THE LUGANSK ATROCITY, 3rd JUNE 2014
The video at the CNN link below is the crime scene sanitised by CNN, though played straight with honest reporting on the scene not playing things to Kiev’s tune.
(There was a time early in the war in the Donbass when CNN were not afraid to contradict the Ukrainian regime in Kiev.) Watch, because it's the first and last time you will see this.
5 women and 3 men died, all civilians.
Air attack on pro-Russian separatists in Luhansk kills 8, stuns residents.
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Lead feature:
ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of THE DURAN
Kiev Grim News: Rus Advance Rabotino, Congress Hardens Stance, Hyperinflation Fear; US Isolated Gaza.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
US votes against ceasefire. Trump Jr, Ukraine lost war. 3 step plan to defeat Russia. MBS snubs UK.
THE DURAN - ALEXANDER MERCOURIS - GLENN DIESEN - PROFESSOR JEFFREY SACHS
Economic Changes in the World - Jeffrey Sachs, Alexander Mercouris and Glenn Diesen.
DANNY HAIPHONG - RICHARD MEDHURST
UKRAINE IS DONE, ISRAEL UP NEXT? NEOCON WORLD WAR.
GLENN GREENWALD
The Ukraine Narrative Fully Implodes.
RUSSIAN NEWS
Putin announced that he will run for the post of President of Russia in 2024.
LEVAN GUDADZE
Ukraine has lost up to 600 military personnel and 25 combat vehicles in the last 24 hours alone...
DANNY HAIPHONG
Putin Just CHANGED EVERYTHING with This Move and the US Can't Do Anything to Stop It.
SCOTT RITTER
Ukraine-Russia & War w/ Venezuela?
EMIL COSMAN - RUSSIA/UKRAINE
Imminent Russian invasion in Sumy Oblast? Ukraine fully evacuates 18 villages and 6 "communities."
Ukraine Front Update 9 Dec. 90% of the fighting took place in Avdiivka and Marinka directions.
Russian forces capture sewage treatment plant in Avdiivka, advancing in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
Ukraine is exhausted as Russia deploys 40,000 troops in Avdiivka. Start clean up op?
THE JIMMY DORE SHOW
Nancy Pelosi Spreads HUGE LIE About Saving Ukraine’s “Democracy”.
U.S. Defense Secretary THREATENS Congress Over Ukraine War Funding!
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - RAY MCGOVERN (EX-CIA) - MATTHEW HOH
"Resign and take the docs with you & PUBLISH!" #whistleblowers
ANDREI MARTYANOV
No Turning Point for NATO.
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
Muscovites show they are largely supportive as Putin confirms run for Russian presidency in 2024 election.
RADIO INTERNATIONAL BELARUS - Международное радио "Беларусь".
⚡️⚡️⚡️Ukraine is preparing a military invasion of Belarus!!!⚡️⚡️⚡️ SPECIAL SERVICES INFORMATION.
️Is dirt, stench and looting a new trend in the European Union?
USA TRIES TO TEACH THE WHOLE WORLD HOW TO LIVE | Ukraine and the EU - a bargaining chip? | Rebellious Slavs.
DUE DISSIDENCE
Vivek STUMPS Nikki Haley on Ukraine in 4th GOP Debate.
THE HILL
Tucker Carlson Mines Zelensky's CORRUPTION As President DISSAPEARS Before Meeting with Senators.
BORZZIKMAN
Ukrainian Army And Foreign Mercenaries Are Repeating The Fate Of 'Wehrmacht Units' In STALINGRAD.
DEFENSE TV
Russia intercepts HIMARS rockets and Ukrainian UAVs.
U.S. MILITARY TECH NEWS
Russian Su-35S, Mig-31 and Su-27 Attack Aircraft Attack Ukrainian Units in Donetsk Region.
DEEP WEAPONS
Russia’s Next-Gen Bomber PAK-DA Gets A New Test Base As Induction Timeline Nears.
MILITARY TV
TOR-M2 Is Crucial For Russian Forces Countering Ukrainian UAVs.
MILITARY TUBE TODAY
Battle moment of Russian O Group to destroys Ukrainian Azov in Kremennaya.
HINDUSTAN TIMES - RUSSIA/INDIA
Russia's Simultaneous Attack On Many Ukraine Cities With Cruise Missiles: Winter Punishment Begins?
Putin-Modi Magic: India-Russia Trade Doubles, 2030 Target Achieved | 'Ties Immune From...'
REDACTED
WHOOPS!? The NYTimes just EXPOSED Israel's Nuke Program.
SCOTT RITTER
Scott Ritter Extra Ep. 120: Ask the Inspector.
THE EMPIRE FILES
Saul Williams & Abby Martin: Israel's High-Tech Barbarism.
CHRIS HEDGES
"The Genocide in Gaza."
KIM IVERSEN
Republicans Now Support A Ceasefire After Being Horrified By Images Coming From Gaza.
VANESSA BEELEY
John Kirby declares Israel doesn't target civilians. Israel develops AI assassination factory tech.
Ultra Orthodox Zionist "Epstein" group is providing "evidence" of "Hamas atrocities".
JACKSON HINKLE SITTING IN FOR GEORGE GALLOWAY
INTERVIEW: Lies, damn lies and IDF statistics.
AJ+
‘It’s Bisan From Gaza, And Diseases Are Spreading At These Schools.'
MINTPRESS NEWS
Did Hamas Carry Out Mass Rapes On October 7?
CGTN EUROPE
China accuses U.S. of ‘Double Standards’ of Gaza ceasefire veto.
HINDUSTAN TIMES - ISRAEL/GAZA
Turkey Dubs UN 'Israel Protection Council' After U.S. Vetoes Gaza Ceasefire; 'No Hope From You'.
IDF 'Kills' Israeli Hostage; 'Fails To Enter' Hamas' Den In Gaza Strip | Key Details:
On Cam: Hamas Traps Israeli Soldiers In House, Blows It Up; 1 IDF Tank Destroyed Every Hour? | Gaza.
Hezbollah's 'Revenge' ATGM Attack On IDF; Israeli Army Barracks Gutted | Watch:
USA Blocks Gaza Truce Resolution; IDF Accused Of West Bank Shooting; America's Iraq Embassy Shelled.
Watch Islamic Nations' Warning To USA, Israel After UN Ceasefire Resolution Blocked | Gaza | Hamas.
THE ECONOMIC TIMES
China, Russia condemn US Veto on Gaza ceasefire, say Washington complicit in merciless bloodbath.
THE CONVO COUCH
Pro Israeli Talking Head Gets Pushback From Piers Morgan, Wind Shifts.
KIM IVERSEN
Disturbing Images Of Gazans Stripped And Detained By Israeli Military.
NOVARA MEDIA
Interview with Omar Baddar; Palestinian Poet Murdered By Israel | #NovaraLive
DAWN NEWS ENGLISH
Saudi Foreign Minister Lashes Out At US Over UNSC Ceasefire Resolution Veto.
MIDDLE EAST EYE
At least 5,000 Israeli soldiers wounded since 7 October.
Daniel Levy on US support for Israel and how it will allow killing in Gaza to continue.
DUE DISSIDENCE
Glenn Greenwald CALLS OUT Right Wing Free Speech HYPOCRISY on Israel.
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS
The Internet vs. Apartheid: How the World is Helping Gaza Stay Online.
Ethnic Cleansing vs. Resistance: What’s Really Happening in Palestine w/ Mariam Barghouti.
EMIL COSMAN
Saudi Arabia MBS smacks UK, cancels trip to London for PUTIN visit. He shows his priorities and FRIENDS.
Putin announced 2024 Presidential Run, he will win if alive. It's solely the Russians' business.
"Flooding Gaza would be war crime." Russia says at UN. Could harm Gaza’s freshwater for generations.
MIDDLE EAST EYE
Gaza bombing nears WW2 bombardment of Germany.
Netanyahu's two Israels.
CGTN EUROPE
Meet the Palestinians inside the Rafah border crossing camp.
GLENN GREENWALD
DEBATE: Batya Ungar-Sargon vs. Omar Baddar on Israel-Gaza.
TELESUR ENGLISH
Israeli shellings have wiped out entire families.
Hamas claims to have thwarted a rescue attempt by Israeli occupation forces.
BRIAN BERLETIC of THE NEW ATLAS
US Missiles Made for & Aimed at China.
CYRUS JANSSEN
US Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor Reveals TRUTH About China.
AFRICAN DIASPORA NEWS CHANNEL
China Has Not Bombed Anyone | European Union Says America is Guilty of Invading & Bombing Countries.
TECH REVOLUTION
Europe Caught Offguard By Russia's New Energy Masterplan | No One Expected This!
WILD SIBERIA
US War Veterans Living In Russia w/@WantedVisuals | Real Life Stories.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
COLONEL KAREN KWIATKOWSKI
On the Path to Self-Destruction.
Articles from Russia Today (RT) - 9th December 2023:
Ukrainians refusing to fight for ‘corrupt government’ – WaPo.
Potential recruits would often rather bribe their way out of the country than join a military “rife with incompetence,” the newspaper reported.
Draft-age Ukrainians are unwilling to fight for President Vladimir Zelensky’s “corrupt government” and avoid conscription through bribery, forgery and perilous attempts to flee to neighboring countries, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
Within days of Russian troops entering Ukraine, Zelensky ordered the country’s borders sealed for men aged 18-60, stationing extra guards along the frontiers to stop potential soldiers from leaving. Now, with Zelensky’s former aide claiming last week that Ukraine has lost as many as 300,000 soldiers, fresh men are in short supply.
“Honestly, we need more soldiers. The professional military personnel are running out,” an assault team leader with Ukraine’s 68th Brigade told the American newspaper.
Kiev has repeatedly expanded its conscription efforts, taking in older men and those previously deemed unfit to fight, while reports suggest that teenagers could soon be pressed into service. Ukrainian authorities have already dropped a rule exempting men under 28 with no previous military experience from the draft, yet several civilians in this category told the Washington Post that they have no intention of showing up.
A 20-year-old man said that he was “not eager to risk his life in the military, given stories he has heard from friends in the ranks about insufficient training and endemic corruption, such as paying bribes to officers to receive vacation leave,” the Post reported, noting that “many are less than eager to fight for a military and national government that is viewed as rife with corruption and incompetence.”
Faced with battlefield conditions often described as a “meat grinder,” as many as 650,000 conscription-aged men have left Ukraine, the BBC recently reported, while “hundreds of thousands” more are evading service within the country, Deputy Defense Minister Natalya Kalmykova stated in October.
Those fleeing stow away in cars, bribe border guards, or take their chances trekking through forests and crossing rivers to enter neighboring Romania, the Post reported. Guides reportedly offer safe passage through the wilderness for $1,200 and up, while “the going rate for bribing a guard on the Moldovan border is $300.” Those staying in Ukraine often bribe military officials for papers marking them as exempt from service.
“Even if you’re missing a leg, they’ll say you can still fly drones,” one deserter told the newspaper, explaining that he fled to Romania because “ordinary Ukrainians are fighting and dying while members of parliament and other elites cruise around in Mercedes and other fancy cars,” in the Post’s words. Others didn’t make it, including a 46-year-old man who froze to death last month.
The manpower shortage has crippled Ukraine’s ability to retake land from Russian forces. Speaking to the BBC last week, a Ukrainian soldier said that his men had been promised several brigades to launch an operation into the Russian-held eastern bank of the Dnieper River near Kherson. Instead, he said that he received a handful of individual companies of young conscripts.
“We need people, but trained people, not the green ones we have there now,” he told the British broadcaster. “There are guys who had spent just three weeks in training, and only managed to shoot a few times,” he continued, adding that “some of our marines can't even swim.”
Ukrainians refusing to fight for ‘corrupt government’ – WaPo.
Russia to launch year-round LNG shipments via Arctic – operator.
Winter deliveries to Asia will start along the Northern Sea Route next month.
Moscow plans to start year-round LNG deliveries to Asia via Russia’s Arctic waterways, Sergey Zybko, head of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) operator, announced this week.
Speaking during the “Arctic: present and future” forum, Zybko said the launch of the pilot program is scheduled for next month.
“Starting from January, gas carriers will move under icebreaker support, including during those months when they never sailed before – March, April and May. This will mean year-round navigation,” he said.
Navigation in the eastern part of the NSR usually starts in June and is halted in December due to thick ice. During the halt in navigation, Russian LNG is usually delivered to Asia via a longer route – through the Suez Canal and the Strait of Malacca, which can take up to 45 days compared to 36 days via the NSR.
Experts note that at the initial stage, year-round navigation will likely be limited to a handful of tankers and make up only a small share in total exports, largely due to the insufficient number of nuclear icebreakers at the present time. However, test shipments will make it possible to evaluate the cost of icebreaker support for gas carriers and check whether it is possible to escort a caravan of several tankers with one icebreaker, analysts say. Both factors will influence the final cost of LNG shipments.
Exports of Russian oil and gas to Asia along the NSR has amounted to about 3.84 million tons this year. While LNG supplies remained largely unchanged from last year at 2.27 million tons, oil deliveries surged, mostly due to exports to China. Russian oil companies sent 1.5 million tons of crude, or 14 tankers, along the NSR in 2023, against only one tanker in 2022.
The NSR is a transport corridor in Russia’s exclusive economic zone that stretches the entire length of Russia’s Arctic and Far East regions. The route is gradually becoming a major trade passage for goods shipped between Europe and Asia. Its geography allows for a drastic reduction of transportation times compared to traditional pathways through the Suez or Panama canals. Over the past eight years, Russia has extensively developed the NSR by modernizing port infrastructure, along with rail and river transport corridors.
Overall freight turnover through the NSR reached 34 million tons in 2022, marking an eightfold increase since 2015. Ongoing infrastructure initiatives are expected to propel the turnover to upwards of 80 million tons in 2024.
Russia to launch year-round LNG shipments via Arctic – operator.
What’s really behind Biden’s threat to send Americans to fight Russia?
The US president’s tough talk is laying the ground to blame Republicans for “losing Ukraine”.
The president of the United States has caused a stir. Speaking to Congress, Joe Biden brought up the possibility of “American troops fighting Russian troops.”
Biden, of course, has repeatedly had problems staying on script or keeping his thoughts straight, resulting in embarrassing gaffes, such as calling his Vice President Kamala Harris a “great president” or mixing up Ukraine and Iran.
However, in this case, his delivery was reasonably coherent. His statement was deliberate, and he even repeated it to make sure his audience fully appreciated its gravity.
No wonder it raised eyebrows. A war between America and Russia, would feature the two largest – by far – of the world’s nine nuclear powers. And others, such as Great Britain or China, for instance, could be drawn in as well because such a conflict would easily turn into a world war. Even the conventional arsenals of Washington and Moscow would guarantee devastation, at least in Europe and probably elsewhere, too.
Yet it is important to understand the context of Biden’s remarks and to be precise about what he said – and what he did not say.
Regarding the context, the American president is on the defensive, not so much against Russia as against the Republicans. They are steadfastly refusing to pass a spending bill that is mostly a vehicle to transfer yet another whopping $61 billion of aid to Ukraine. That would come on top of a current – as of October – total of $116 billion already approved by the American Congress in response to the war in Ukraine.
The opposition to releasing more funding has more than one reason. Republicans are explicit about the fact that they are using the administration’s request as leverage. They want concessions to their ideas about hardening America’s borders against immigration. Since the White House will not play ball, Republicans will no longer cooperate on money for Ukraine. In that sense, this is just everyday politics: tough horse-trading cloaked in overblown rhetoric.
But that marks a momentous shift. The West’s proxy war in Ukraine used to be exempt from politics as usual, ideologically elevated to a plane of almost religious significance. Those days are well and truly over. Republicans clearly fear no electoral repercussions for treating this issue as just another bargaining chip. And they are right. Polls show declining support for the war among American voters. Even in August, a majority were already against spending more money on it. Among Republican voters, this position is preponderant.
No wonder Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has canceled his already scheduled remote appearance before Congress. He is no longer treated as special, and his pleas would have made no difference, leaving him with nothing but additional public humiliation.
At the same time, the demotion of the proxy war from a sort of holy war for Western “values” (whatever those may be) to a tradeable item could not have happened without the failure of Ukraine and its sponsors on the battlefield. The Republicans’ intransigence and Biden’s escalating rhetoric are the result of a real, realistic, and by now openly admitted sense that this is likely to be a lost cause.
This brings us back to the question of what exactly the American president has actually said. In essence, he has delivered two key points. One was his unfounded, if popular, guess – presented with the usual aplomb as certainty – that if Russia wins the war in Ukraine, it will inevitably go on to attack other countries. And since Biden also assumes that Moscow’s future targets would include NATO member states – clearly in Eastern Europe, in particular – he concluded that such a Russian attack would trigger America’s treaty obligation to fight Russia directly.
Of course, experts at least know that even NATO’s famed Article Five is not the hair trigger many believe it to be. In reality, according to the letter of the NATO treaty, member states do not automatically have to go to war when another member state is attacked. But it is a political fact that NATO’s real-world credibility rests on the idea that its members will defend each other militarily and without hesitation.
Hence, Biden’s warning that if Ukraine loses, America and Russia could end up at war both is and is not about Ukraine. It is, because Ukraine’s looming defeat is its trigger. It is not, because Biden has not threatened such a fight in or over Ukraine. Instead, he has not only made clear who Washington claims to be ready to defend by going to war with Moscow but also who it will not defend in that manner, namely Ukraine. For Kiev, this must be bitter. But it was predictable. The Zelensky regime allowed the West, led by the US, to use its country as a pawn – good enough to bleed profusely but not good enough for membership of the club. What Biden has said is simply a summary of that sad, cruel, and humiliating fact. In other times, Zelensky would have had only one honorable thing left to do. He’ll probably go for a golden exile instead.
On the surface, the American president seems to still try to avert Ukraine’s defeat. But that is deceptive, for two reasons. Biden’s talk may sound like an attempt to pressure the obstinate Republicans into finally coughing up the money to save the day. But, in reality, it is more likely that the president or those around him know that the day cannot be saved anymore. Hence, in reality, this warning is an early move in the blame game. Once Ukraine is defeated, the question “who lost Ukraine” will poison American politics, perhaps, depending on the precise timing of that defeat, even during a presidential election.
Biden is merely preparing the ground for blaming the Republicans for what will be the result of his administration’s arrogant high-risk policy. Will that work? Probably not outside Democratic true-believer circles.
And then, last and perhaps really least, there is a message to Washington’s NATO “partners” in Europe. “Yes,” it runs, “we are about to lose our signature proxy war against Russia; yes, everything went wrong, from economic sanctions (which made Russia stronger instead of weaker) to military support (which showed Moscow that Western tanks also “burn,” in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s laconic terms); and yes, we have over-extended ourselves and revealed how weak we really are in every way possible. But please don’t worry. If push comes to shove, you – unlike Ukraine – are still safe because you – unlike Ukraine – are inside the club. For you, we would really, really fight. Honest.”
What a message, once unpacked. Even on its own terms, it reeks of despair and bluffing. And if it’s not a bluff, then what a promise: Don’t worry. If you are attacked, there will be World War Three.
The reality is that the Western gamble in Ukraine has done irreversible damage – to the West (apart from Ukraine, of course). NATO has dealt a crushing and probably lasting blow to its own credibility. The West’s – and really Europe’s and the world’s – real hope does not lie in American words about resolve. Ask in Kiev: they were fed the same “with-you-to-the-end” shlock. And Article Five cannot be relied on to make the difference, because the US will only ever consult its own – usually misguided – self-interest, and its NATO “allies” (vassals, really) would be naive to rely on it. Berlin even might; Paris, for instance, not so much. No, the world’s real hope lies in how silly Biden’s premise is. Moscow would be foolish to attack one European NATO member state after the other. And unlike the West, Russia recently has given very few signs of being foolish. It is, in other words, Russia’s rationality that a proxy-defeated NATO-Europe will have to rely on. How ironic.
What’s really behind Biden’s threat to send Americans to fight Russia?
Putin and the opposition: Everything about the 2024 election in Russia.
The Russian president has officially announced his reelection bid.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Friday that he plans to seek another term in office in the upcoming March 2024 presidential election.
Putin announced the bid during a meeting with servicemen, at which he awarded Hero of Russia medals to those who had distinguished themselves during the military operation in Ukraine. Putin said he has had “different thoughts at different times” on the matter, yet ultimately decided to run for office once again. “I am going to run for president of the Russian Federation,” he stated.
When is the election set to be held?
The 2024 presidential election will be held over a three-day period from March 15-17, Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) announced. This will be the first time a presidential election is held over multiple days. However, the multi-day format has been used in other elections in Russia after it was first introduced during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.
The extended format has proven to be popular among voters, allowing better turnout and putting less strain on local election committees, CEC head Ella Pamfilova explained, adding that keeping the polls open for several days has become a “tradition” in the country.
For how long Putin has been in power?
Vladimir Putin was elected Russia’s president in the year 2000 and served two four-year terms until 2008. Although presidential terms in the country were technically unlimited at the time, an individual could only serve two consecutive terms.
Putin subsequently became prime minister under Dmitry Medvedev, who was Russia’s president between 2008 and 2012. During Medvedev’s tenure, the presidential term was extended to six years.
Putin has remained Russia’s president since 2012 and is currently serving his second six-year term after being reelected in 2018.
Constitutional changes
The Russian presidency was overhauled during a major constitutional reform launched back in 2020. Under the new rules, the provision about two consecutive terms for one person was abolished and a hard cap of two six-year terms in total was introduced.
However, under an amendment tabled by renowned cosmonaut-turned-MP Valentina Tereshkova, Putin’s terms before the constitutional makeover were “nullified,” effectively enabling him to run for office in 2024 – and in 2030 – should he desire to do so.
Who are the candidates?
Several public figures and politicians have already announced their intent to run for the presidency next year. Independent candidates must collect at least 300,000 signatures from their backers to file a bid, while those nominated by registered parties must gather at least 100,000. Candidates nominated by parties represented in the country’s parliament are exempt from the signature-gathering requirement.
The list of hopefuls includes several liberal figures, namely Ekaterina Duntsova, a journalist and former local MP from Rzhev; long-time opposition figure Boris Nadezhdin, a former MP and now a regional legislator backed by the centrist-right party Civic Initiative; as well as Sergey Lipatov, a lawyer and activist. All three of these hopefuls have been critical of the policies of the Russian government, including the military operation in Ukraine.
Igor Girkin (also known as Igor Strelkov), a former field commander who briefly served as the defense minister in the Donetsk People’s Republic early in the conflict in then-Ukrainian Donbass, has also announced his intention to run. Girkin, a controversial figure who has been highly critical of the military operation in Ukraine – although primarily of its execution rather than its essence – was detained earlier this year on charges of making public calls to engage in extremist activities. Whether he will be able to run for president remains unclear.
Anatoly Rabinovich, a less-well-known politician and public advocate, has also announced his intent to run for the presidency, suggesting his bid would become a “test of tolerance” for Russians. Although he expressed confidence that Putin would win the election, he stated that should a candidate in their 40s garner some 20%, it would be a major win for the country’s opposition. However, this is only possible if the opposition manages to field a single candidate, he warned last month.
Putin and the opposition: Everything about the 2024 election in Russia.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
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RYBAR MAPPING UPDATE - ISRAEL/GAZA
Israel-Palestine War Map, December 7th-8th.
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THETI MAPPING UPDATE
WAR UPDATE: Russian Forces ADVANCE On FOUR Fronts - December 9th.
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M MAPPING UPDATE
Russian Forces Succesfully Advance East Of Robotyne And Pryutne.
HS MAPPING UPDATE
Russian Advance North Of Avdiivka And East Of Robotyne.
WEEB UNION MAPPING UPDATE
Russian Troops Assault Avdiivka | New Front?
VICTORY BELONGS TO RUSSIA: IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME
Each day that passes makes a conclusive Russian victory in the Donbass and beyond more certain. As Russia bolsters her forces, and weaponry, those of Ukraine decrease. Russian forces gain ready access to rest and recuperation as troop numbers increase. The increasingly exhausted and demoralised Ukrainian troops have an ever decreasing prospect of such respite. This situation is likely to bring them to complete breakdown as Russia unleashes the firepower of the more modern and advanced weaponry that is arriving with the newly mobilised Russian troops.
The various Ukrainian offensives are now weak when confronted by the reinforced Russian lines. A few futile efforts achieve quite miserable results before fire reigns down on the Ukrainian troops and they are forced back to their starting positions.
And now, all this being said, we have arrived at the wet, and later, freezing conditions where these pathetic Ukrainian forces will be subject to myriad forms of abject misery with death and injury all around them while they lie sodden or frozen, abandoned to their fate by Kiev.
The pitiable young and old of Ukraine have been frogmarched to their deaths as cannon-fodder while the bestial elites of the collective West urge their "president" to add more to their number there at the gates of Hell and their doom. We must feel for the majority of them as they are not the Nazis we revile, in most part they are decent men, fathers, sons, brothers, husband and uncles, who no doubt saw through the coup of 2014 for what it was. But sadly, their fate seems sealed.
Nothing will stop Russia now. Every factor favours them. Victory will be Russia's. In Donbass and beyond and in due course across the world.
Victory belongs to Russia: It is now only a matter of time.
UPDATES TO BE ADDED HERE AS AND WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
